Any grilled product is delicious, zucchini is no exception.
Who would have thought that out of a boring and watery vegetable, you can cook elegant snacks and side dishes, and all this is done simply and easily.
You just need to master the essence and you can safely experiment!
Grilled Squash - the general principles of cooking
Zucchini for baking need to use small with a thin sandpaper. There is no need to clean the dishes, but you can pre-cut it, marinate, add any ingredients, sauces, there are actually a lot of recipes, here are collected the most interesting options.
The grill is different:
• Brazier. Frying on charcoal is popular, but the weather or the time of year does not always allow cooking zucchini in nature. But the essence is simple and clear: the product is laid out on a trellis or strung pieces on a skewer, cooked over hot coals.
• Electric grill. Alternative to a brazier. It works on the network, has a ten, grid, on which the products are laid out. The temperature and cooking time directly depend on the model of the device.
• Grill pan. Comfortable kitchen utensils with a raised bottom, simple and convenient to use, allows you to quickly and easily prepare not only zucchini. Additionally need a stove.
• Grill in the oven or in the microwave. Can also be used for roasting vegetables, including zucchini. Time and temperature also depend on the model and recipe.
Grilled zucchini can be served as an independent dish, additions to meat or poultry, used for different salads, appetizers. Usually they are supplemented with sour cream, cheese sauces, but there are interesting recipes with meat, fish, and other vegetables.
Grilled squash with cream sauce
It uses a grill pan and zucchini prepared in slices. But also vegetables can be brought to readiness on any other grill or on coals. In addition to the recipe sour cream sauce. Ingredients
• 2 young zucchini;
• 5 tablespoons sour cream;
• 0.5 buns of dill;
• 3 cloves of garlic;
• salt, black pepper;
• a little bit of any oil.
Cooking
1. We wash the young zucchini and cut them in circles, but not thick and thin. The average thickness of 7-10 millimeters. It is desirable that the circles were the same among themselves, this will help them to prepare evenly.
2. Lubricate the pan with oil so that the vegetable does not stick. Make it a brush. We put to warm up on a regular stove. Either turn on the electric grill.
3. Only now zucchini can be salted and sprinkled with black pepper. If this is done in advance, the vegetable will release a lot of juice. Sprinkle, rub the spices in pieces and immediately transfer to a hot grill.
4. Fry on each side.
5. Peel garlic cloves. We grind. But you can take and dry garlic, it is more concentrated, the amount to taste. Add to sour cream, pepper and salt. Chop the dill very finely and also send to the sauce. Intensive stir.
6. Put hot zucchini on a dish, sauce in a bowl, decorate with greens and immediately send to the table.
Grilled Zucchini with Garlic
The recipe is very juicy and tasty grilled zucchini, which are obtained not only fragrant. But also rosy. Prepared by halves. Choose the smallest dairy vegetables. Grill for this dish can be used absolutely any.
Ingredients
• 3 zucchini;
• 5 cloves of garlic;
• 40 ml of olive oil;
• 1 bunch of juicy greens;
• salt.
Cooking
1. Cut 3 cloves of garlic in half on a plate. We spread in the heated oil, fry until golden brown, throw garlic. Oil set aside, let cool.
2. Wash the courgettes, cut each vegetable into 2 halves. We take a knife and make cuts on the pulp, a depth of about 0.5 cm, do not reach the skin. You can make a mesh or stripes.
3. Now we squash each zucchini inside with garlic oil. Convenient to use silicone brush.
4. Top sprinkle with fine salt, quickly grind and send to the grill. Bake at first, cut it down, then brown the crust. 5. Chop the remaining garlic cloves and chop the greens. You can use just dill or a mixture of different herbs. We mix.
6. Remove hot zucchini from the grill, rub the inside with cuts with garlic and greens, serve to the table.
Grilled zucchini with cheese
A wonderful option for a full-fledged snack that can be cooked absolutely on any grill. But it is very important for such zucchini to use hard cheese, which quickly melts.
Ingredients
• 2 zucchini;
• 140 g of cheese;
• 4 cloves of garlic;
• greens, salt;
• 2 tablespoons sour cream.
Cooking
1. Cut the zucchini circles or along the plates of one centimeter. Sprinkle with salt, rub with hands and put on the grill. Let the first side brown.
2. Quickly chop the cheese slices, the number of zucchini number.
3. Chop the garlic, greens, mix with sour cream.
4. Turn the zucchini over to the second side and quickly put garlic mixture with sour cream and greens on top of each, put a little, smear it with the same spoon. By the way, you can put a thin circle of tomato or sausage, the dish will turn out even more delicious.
5. Cover with slices of cheese, cook a few minutes.
6. We wait until the second side is reddened and carefully remove the pieces from the grill. Served hot or cold.
Delicious marinade for grilled flavored zucchini
A feature of these vegetables will be marinade. For grilled zucchini it is prepared on the basis of balsamic vinegar. Vegetables are well soaked, they release excess water, they turn out just amazing. Marinade for this recipe is suitable for other types of vegetables and mushrooms.
Ingredients
• 30 ml of balsamic vinegar;
• 2 tablespoons of olive oil;
• 1 tsp. honey;
• 1 tsp. sea salt;
• 2 basil sprigs;
• 3 cloves of garlic;
• 2-3 zucchini.
Cooking
1. Mix balsamic vinegar and salt, add honey and rub well, so that all ingredients are dissolved.
2. Add mashed sprig of basil, put olive oil.
3. Garlic or cut into pieces, or chop it to fine gruel. Add to the marinade. Stir. If desired, you can add ground pepper. 4. Cut the courgettes in half lengthwise, if they are large, then two pieces are enough. Liberally lubricate the marinade side of the slice. We rub the remains with the remains. We put in the container. Reserve for an hour. During this time, the vegetable will release juice.
5. Squeeze halves of zucchini from excess water, send it to the grill, bring to readiness.
6. When serving, sprinkle liberally with herbs or grease with garlic sauce.
Grilled squash in soy sauce
The easiest and most affordable marinade for grilled zucchini.
Ingredients
• 50 ml of soy sauce;
• 1 tsp. dry garlic;
• 2 zucchini;
• 0.3 tsp. black pepper;
• 1 tbsp. l balsamic vinegar;
• 2 spoons of butter.
Cooking
1. Combine all marinade ingredients, except oil. Stir to dissolve. You can also take fresh garlic cloves, but then grind well.
2. Cut the zucchini pieces, slices, or in any other way, we shift into a package.
3. Pour the sauce into it.
4. We set, shake well, leave for an hour. It is advisable to shake the bag well every 15 minutes.
5. Unleash, lay squash in a colander to glass excess liquid, gently squeeze.
6. Add the butter, stir with the hands, send the pieces on the grill, bring to readiness.
Grilled Zucchini Zucchini
The recipe for garlic zucchini, which are pickled, is then stuffed. Everything is prepared simply, it turns out delicious.
Ingredients
• 3 small zucchini;
• 5 cloves of garlic;
• 1 spoon of butter;
• 1 tbsp. l salt.
Cooking
1. Cut the zucchini into two halves. Liberally pour zucchini with salt, leave to marinate.
2. Squeeze out salt and water.
3. Cut the garlic in long pieces.
4. We make in the zucchini piercings with a thin knife, insert the pieces of garlic.
5. We rub vegetables with oil, we send to the grill.
6. We bake halves of zucchini until readiness from two sides.
7. Serve a dish with sour cream, herbs, you can pour with lemon juice or sprinkle with balsamic vinegar.
Grilled zucchini with bacon (bacon)
For the preparation of such zucchini is convenient to use long strips of bacon, but the usual lard also fit. Cheese is used to bond the layers. Ingredients
• 2 zucchini;
• 4 strips of bacon;
• 1 tsp. salts;
• 3 cloves of garlic;
• 1 spoon of olive oil;
• 80 grams of cheese;
• 3 tablespoons thick mayonnaise.
Cooking
1. Cut each zucchini into 4 plates along.
2. Combine chopped garlic, oil and salt, you can pour black or red pepper.
3. Rub the slices of squash with the mixture.
4. We rub cheese finely.
5. Put the zucchini, lightly sprinkle with cheese, a strip of bacon on it, again cheese and zucchini.
6. In the same way we collect the remaining “sandwiches”.
7. Shifts on the grill. Cook first on one side, then gently turn over, brown the other side. Thanks to the cheese stacks should not fall apart.
8. We take mayonnaise, we shift in a bag, we make a hole, we squeeze a grid over a baked zucchini.
Grilled Squash - helpful tips and tricks
• If there is a lot of vegetable oil in the marinade, it will drip, smoke when draining, and the cooking process is difficult.
• For vegetables, you can use not only balsamic bite, but also apple, wine, ordinary table, taking into account the concentration of the product.
• If zucchini is grilled with other vegetables, you need to read the size of the pieces so that everything is baked at the same time. Or lay out the products so that it is not difficult to remove ready-made copies from the grill and leave those that are still raw.